SAP ERP User Guide - Tips to Increase Productivity


Book Description

This SAP user guide will help you to work with SAP ERP more efficiently and effectively. You will learn about the various options and shortcuts available for navigating in SAP ERP. Walk through how to configure and optimize your user interface. Dive into SAP ERP productivity accelerators such as screen layouts, keyboard shortcuts, menus, and transaction codes. Learn how to leverage variants to personalize a version of a report. Find out what your options are for downloading and exporting reports for offline analysis and distribution. Explore tips for SAP ERP integration and obtain expert advice for finding and navigating between related documents and master data. Get tips for setting default values for frequently used transactions. Obtain an introduction to how to view and process jobs, schedule and monitor background jobs, and access and view your print spools. By using practical examples and screen-shots, the author brings readers quickly up to speed to get the most out of their SAP system. - Navigate in SAP ERP efficiently and effectively - Configure your user interface - Streamline frequently used transactions - Quick reference guides to menu bars, commands, and shortcuts




Practical Guide to SAP FI-RA — Revenue Accounting and Reporting


Book Description

Accounting standards are changing! Get up to speed and dive into the fundamentals of SAP Revenue Accounting. Review the basic legal principles that determine the reporting of revenues and common technical challenges, as well as the legal basis for ASC 606. Walk step-by-step through the revenue recognition process according to ASC 606. Get best practices on how to prepare your system for an implementation and get a list of activities required to implement the Revenue Accounting and Reporting (FI-RA) business add-on in SAP ERP. Identify the three steps required to transition from the old to the new revenue recognition standard. Review the impact of the Business Rule Framework Plus (BRFplus). Get tips and best practices for data consistency and reporting. By using detailed examples, tips, and screenshots, this book covers critical accounting standard topics including: - ASC 606 statutory requirements - Integration between SAP SD, PS, FI-RA, and FI-GL - Troubleshooting data migration challenges - BRFplus in revenue accounting




SAP BW on SAP HANA


Book Description

This book dives into SAP BW on SAP HANA. Explore the fundamentals of data warehousing on SAP HANA and identify what is different about running in an SAP HANA environment. Readers can utilize this handbook prior to or post migration to maximize their ROI. Review data loading methods and virtualization options. Walk step by step through external data integration in SAP BW 7.4 including enhanced composite providers, open ODS views, and virtual tables. Explore the new reporting options for SAP BW on SAP HANA and look at changes to the BI analytical engine, calculated key figures, and query connections to SAP BusinessObjects tools. Dive into data architecture and learn more about virtualization options for enterprise data warehouse in conjunction with SAP HANA. Get detailed instructions for upgrading, maintaining, and running SAP BW on SAP HANA including service packs, transports, and admin functions. Learn more about modeling in SAP BW enabled by SAP HANA in regards to moving from LSA to LSA++. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, the author brings readers up to speed on running SAP BW on SAP HANA. - Tips for upgrading, maintaining, and running BW on HANA - Data loading methods and real-time data acquisition - New reporting paradigm for BW on HANA - HANA data architecture




Capacity Planning with SAP


Book Description

Does your organization need to improve the way it manages capacity management in SAP? This book dives into an often overlooked area of SAP and provides readers with an understanding of SAP Capacity Management functionality, including capacity planning, sequencing, leveling, and scheduling. Identify quick wins you can implement to improve results and identify opportunities. Learn more about your options for resource leveling and identify how to leverage capacity planning to build a more robust supply chain program at your organization. Explore how to leverage material requirements planning (MRP) and advanced planning systems (APS) in SAP to build a better supply program. Take an indepth look at how to translate planned and customer demand into an effective production program. Walk through standard SAP ERP functionality available for capacity management planning. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, the author brings readers quickly up to speed on the fundamentals of SAP Capacity Management. - How to leverage SAP Capacity Management - Capacity planning best practices - Options for capacity scheduling in SAP ERP - Automatic resource and material scheduling with SAP APO







Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part 2: Preference and Customs Management


Book Description

SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) helps companies maximize supply chain performance and reduces the overall cost and risk of global trade by ensuring regulatory compliance, accelerating trade activity, and enabling trade compliance automation. The Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part II dives into customs management and preference processing. Explore how to leverage self-filing, using a broker model, and adopting a free trade agreement to improve ROI. The book is current to version 10.1 and explores version 11.0 and its new features including Fiori apps and UX. - Best practices for leveraging SAP GTS for trade compliance - Fundamentals of preference implementation and system set up - How self-filing, broker models and free trade agreements can improve ROI - Review of Version 11.0 with screenshots




100 Things You Should Know about HR Management with SAP


Book Description

Have you ever spent days trying to figure out how to generate a personnel report in SAP ERP HCM only to find out you just needed to click a few buttons. If so, you'll be delighted with this book -- it unlocks the secrets of SAP ERP HCM. It provides users and super-users with 100 tips and workarounds you can use to increase productivity, save time, and improve the overall ease-of-use of SAP ERP HCM. The tips have been carefully selected to provide a collection of the best, most useful, and rarest information. And with the uniform easy-to-follow, visually-oriented layout, you'll get everything you need to know in a concise, practical presentation. Your SAP user experience will be friendlier and easier, and you may even hear a few comments like "I had no idea you could do that that way " or "I wish I had known how to do that a long time ago " With the time-saving shortcuts and workarounds provided, users of all levels can get the most out of their daily interaction with the system. In addition, these insightful tips will help make customization easier, reduce the demands on IT's time, and make users more efficient and effective.




100 Things You Should Know about Financial Accounting with SAP


Book Description

If youre an SAP ERP Financial Accounting user or super-user, this book offers you 100 tips and workarounds that can be used withing your SAP systems to increase productivity and ease-of-use. The tips have been carefully selected to provide a collection of the best, most useful, and rarest information. This book unlocks the secrets of an SAP Financial Accounting guru for use by everyone.




ABAP Development for SAP HANA


Book Description

See how SAP HANA has changed ABAP Whether you're studying for certification or just want to see what's new, you can learn to design simple and advanced SAP HANA applications with ABAP by using this comprehensive guide. Learn to enable code pushdown, use new Open SQL enhancements and CDS views, and integrate native SAP HANA objects. Use detailed programming examples to develop database procedures and optimize your applications. You'll be programming for SAP HANA in no time Basic Principles Explore essential SAP HANA principles like in-memory technology and architecture, the SAP Web IDE, and AS ABAP database programming. Advanced Techniques Learn to use tools like InfoProviders, EasyQuery Interface, and the Application Function Modeler for SAP HANA. Discover how to integrate geographical data from SAP HANA in ABAP programs. Optimizing Existing Applications Get step-by-step instructions to help you optimize existing ABAP applications, and learn how to speed up applications with SAP HANA. Highlights: Code pushdown SAP Web IDE Eclipse CDS views SQLScript Native SAP HANA object integration Open SQL enhancements Geo-information Text searches Error analysis




Operations Management


Book Description

An integrated media and text solution which clearly demonstrates the relevance of operations to everyday business activities, through extensive use of text and running video case studies from companies such as Ikea, Domino's, EasyJet, and Ticketmaster. A truly engaging package for those with little knowledge or experience in operations management.